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View synonyms for written

written

[ rit-n ]

verb

  1. a past participle of write.


adjective

  1. expressed in writing ( spoken ).

written

/ ˈrɪtən /

verb

  1. the past participle of write
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. taken down in writing; transcribed Compare spoken

    the written word

    written evidence

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • half-written adjective
  • pre·written adjective
  • self-written adjective
  • well-written adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of written1

First recorded before 1000, for the adjective
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Example Sentences

In its written statement this week, a NHTSA spokesperson said the agency is working on another rule that “would reduce early transitions to forward-facing car seats and boosters,” but she did not provide any details.

If a lobbyist sends pre-written legislation but the office doesn’t have the bandwidth or the diversity of experience to assess these things, members will be a lot less effective.

In some cases, for instance, the written reviews were almost entirely negative, while the non-written reviews were almost all five stars.

Well written ads are decisive to the success of a Google Ads PPC strategy.

Through its designated spokesman, Prospect and Leonard Green declined the initial request and asked ProPublica to submit written questions.

Michael Kazin is a historian who has written a lot about the New Left.

But the real mystery and injustice came from Brooke being essentially written out of the history of the civil rights movement.

The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.

Among the characters to be portrayed were the people I had written about—the unsung heroes of the Selma campaign.

It was different, he said, from any other song he had ever written.

But if the Bible was written by men, some of them more or less inspired, then it would not, in all probability be wholly perfect.

A considerable proportion of the industrial and commercial news is now written to an end.

Accustomed to a written character, their eyes became wearied by the crabbedness and formality of type.

They embody in themselves the uppermost thought of the era that was dawning when they were written.

I have written to her, and to Mrs. Coningsby; and she is perfectly free: every bond is relinquished, but that of the heart.

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